Assessing potential miRNA targets based on a Markov model

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 848-860

  Fu, Hao Yue ^a,b   Xue, Ding Yu ^b   Zhang, Xiang De ^a   Yang, Pei Ying ^b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Machine learning method; Markov chain model; Maximum likelihood estimation; MicroRNA target prediction; Potential target assessment

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RNA BINDING; RNA GENE;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 70349397399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16765680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4238/vol8-3gmr604     Document Type: Article

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